BBC Radio Suffolk book club reviews
A Question of Identity
A gripping crime novel, more a whydunnit than a whodunnit, featuring detective Simon Serrailler, by the prolific and wide-ranging writer Susan Hill.
Date selected: 17th October 2013
Between the Lines
For everyone who loves books, and wishes their favourite characters would come to life.
Date selected: 2nd July 2013
One Dollar Horse
A feel-good story about overcoming the odds for a girl whose dream is to ride in the Badminton Horse Trials.
Date selected: 7th May 2013
Various Pets Alive and Dead
Date selected: 29th April 2013
Tigers in Red Weather
A beautiful, astonishing, sensual account of long, hot summers on Martha's Vineyard where life is ruptured by betrayal and deception.
Date selected: 19th April 2013
Extra Yarn
A little girl loves knitting and with her endless supply of wool, she can supply the whole neighbourhood with colourful garments.
Date selected: 5th February 2013
Maggot Moon
A stunning, compelling story with so many layers and facets.
Date selected: 20th January 2013
Why be happy when you could be normal?
A memoir revealing how books and writing saved an unloved, adopted child and turned her into a talented, successful, much-loved author.
Date selected: 18th January 2013
The Small Hours
A dark, amusing, wry and quirky tale of a woman who opens a utopian nursery school.
Date selected: 14th November 2012
Seldom Seen
The village of Worlingworth in the 1980s - a bleak, dark, disturbing account of the secrets of village life.
Date selected: 24th September 2012
The High Street
A beautiful lift-the-flap picture book celebrating traditional town shops with a contemporary look.
Date selected: 14th September 2012
Pirate Gran Goes for Gold
A picture book which is great fun: lots to look at in the illustrations and plenty of giggles from the text
Date selected: 9th July 2012
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Harold Fry goes out to post a letter and doesn't stop walking. This is a wonderful, uplifting and life-affirming story everyone should read!
Date selected: 9th July 2012
The Shoemaker's Wife
A feel-good saga of family, friendship and love set in Italy and America in the 1920s.
Date selected: 23rd May 2012
Noah Barleywater Runs Away
The book is a funny, magical modern fairy tale, and while there is a little bit of sadness, it is a story of hope.
Date selected: 27th March 2012
No Mark Upon Her
Date selected: 19th March 2012
Between Shades of Gray
A moving and haunting fictionalised account of a young girl deported with her family from Lithuania to Siberia during the Second World War.
Date selected: 26th November 2011
S.W.I.T.C.H. Beetle Blast
The adventures of twins Josh and Danny who, thanks to an experimental serum, turn into insects!
Date selected: 27th September 2011